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Originally Posted by HauntingShock
What's the best settings used by most fansub groups? and what file container do they use?
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Not related to only fansubbing, but this is where most encoders that are not encoding for some specific size limitation (like people used to in the beginning/middle of the 2000s) ended up (since that way of encoding had more to do with 'we want it to fit X' rather than 'we want it to be of quality X').
- CRF rate control ("highest CRF value that still looks good to you", which will basically mean you get the least bit rate used to keep that quality you wanted for that set of settings).
- Preset and possibly tune setting set accordingly accordingly to the source and the "how slow do I want this to go" (as the preset setting controls the compression VS speed set-up you want).
- Generally everything but the fastest and slowest presets are used (ultrafast is usually for speed benchmarks, and placebo is just gaining you very little while turning every knob 'to eleven'), but the choice is yours.
- Read more here.
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You might as well just use x264 from the command line (with batch files, for example), as it's literally only a couple of settings; Also
AvsPmod is recommended as an Avisynth script editor/preview application.
Matroska is the container of choice (d'oh) for most people, because they do not need the possible extra information that a raw H.264 bit stream might contain (HRD info, extra headers and such, useful for muxing into MPEG-TS for broadcast/blu-ray mastering), while letting you use the output file even if your encode should be disrupted. Not to mention that for muxing in video/audio/subtitles/chapters/attachments the matroska format is the most versatile, as well as has one of the best graphical muxing applications with
mkvtoolnix toolset's mmg (mkvmergegui).
Also, for <insert deity>'s sake, do softsubbing since you can. Re-encoding because of typos and similar is just derp in 2012.